How To Make A Modern J-Pop Song

↓ MORE TUTORIALS ↓

Music produced, mixed and mastered by: indrop
Lyrics : Yuyuyu

0:00 Intro
0:58 Ingredients
1:18 Verse
1:50 Chords
2:20 Guitar Tone
3:00 Pre-Chorus
4:20 Chorus
5:31 Intro (Song)
5:53 Vocals
6:19 Full Song!

A good video about secondary dominants! (music theory):

#oshinoko #anime #jpop

[tempeight]

My favorite part of J-pop culture is the descending chromatic scale, it just sound so smooth and adorable, lol

[shiftybat]

Eve, Yorushika, and Yonezu aren't gonna be happy that you're spilling their industry secrets.

[TankMcMusic]

WAIT THAT VOCAL IS A SYNTH WHAT??? Damn, theyve come a long way since vocaloids and Miku

[truegreen]

When it's Zutomayo, until you add the Ayase pianos and it automatically becomes Yoasobi. Crazy stuff.

[scherzometer]

Everyone talking about the voice synth is ignoring the FIRE trumpets in the intro and outro. I don’t know why but I can’t replicate them

[はる-hsc]

This shows well that J-Pop since later 2010s is created (and influenced) by composers who would write Vocaloid songs on Niconico before. The chord progressions and instruments are brought from 2010s Vocaloid songs as they are.

[JeiShian]

The vocal realism is worryingly good! I had no idea

Ofc your music is amazing too

[muntyyC]

sounds like a beautiful blend of yoasobi & zutomayo. thank you for your work man

[Pluvillion]

i canNOT believe i just witnessed a SynthV original being made right in front of my eyes!!!

[HelloWorld-fcqj]

I am Japanese, and I am glad to see so many people interested in Japanese music !
"Just the two of us progressions" and secondary dominants are very important and my favorite content when discussing Japanese music. However, I understand that it is a common view among musicians that we should not rely too much on this progression. I believe that there are also cliché (chromatic changes), "Royal road progression ".

[crazyorange-OG]

The vocals being synth is wild to me, I had no idea they had reached this level. Great job on the song

[abug]

That was really great. The only thing missing for me as a j-rock/pop/metal listener for 4 years now, is the second verse being a variation of the first one. Almost every Japanese artists/bands I listen to have a very interesting second verse.
Thanks for this video, that was very informative.

[yeowool]

the crunchy guitar tone mwahhhh absolute chefs kiss 😚

[iamindrop]

as someone mentioned, during the chord progression section the G Maj7 is the actually the bVI chord not the bIV! 😅 that was a typo! yikes i apologize

[ddoen.ludadori]

Bruh I know that SynthV IS amazing but can we appreciate the tuning on this song?? Like I've been listening to an unhealthy amount of SynthV cover that I can spot right away the robotic in the voice. But The tuning on this is fcking incredible bruh!!

[ayimioy]

Me sees thumbnail that says:
"This Chord"
Me: This Chord, I'm howling at the moon

[oDucking]

As someone whos been playing guitar for 7 years and piano for 5 ive been looking into learning more about music theory to start making my own music. I love that you just mention all the music theory you use when using certain chord proggresions or instruments. Its really nice to see the full process of someone that knows what theyre doing. Really helps and great video! 1 question: how do you get those strings to sound so real?

[KenseiOST]

OMG your arrangement and production sounds great!! It certainly sounds like the opening of a current Anime.
I'm sure I'll keep watching your videos, keep it up!!!

[DrumRollTonyReacts]

I'm just here for the thumbnail "This Chord?" with the arrow pointing to the single note A... LOL
Cool video tho!

[maidenrelish]

I've always found it interesting to see vocal synths voices outside of the "VOCALOID/Vocal Synths" communities, it's interesting to see how normal composers use the software and apply it to their work, it's partly an audience that is also looking to cover Synthesizer V, the program that was used in this great composition.

I've always wanted to get in contact with musicians who are that good and that great, to share all the elements of these vocal synthesis tools that they used, and idk to make like a cohesion or comparison between what they've done so far with the program, and what you can get an artist to do manipulating that same voice.

In the vocal synths environment, it is called "tuning", which is the process of vocalizing, and tuning the tone, timbre of voice and in general many aspects, to even match the singing of famous artists, being this something tedious and a little complex to explain since each user has his way of working and a distinctive "tuning" that characterizes him.

Great video, it would be interesting to see compositions with Chinese voices that the program offers, as I consider that they are the ones that have some of the most interesting capabilities of the program, and that can sing in 5 different languages, Chinese, English, Japanese, Cantonese and a beta in Spanish that continues in development.